The results are in: Rep. Steve Cohen is not Texas swimsuit model’s father

The case that CNN called “one of the strangest political stories of the year” has ended with an unexpected twist: Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen is not the father of a Texas State University swimsuit model.

Native Texan and Texas State University student Victoria Brink found herself in the middle of the Washington gossip world after some misleading tweets sent during last year’s State of the Union address to the man she believed to be her father, a 64-year-old Democratic congressman from Memphis.

Cohen was caught tweeting during President Barack Obama’s annual address; the tweets have since been deleted, but at the time led followers to believe that he was romantically involved with Brink.

Victoria Brink’s current Twitter profile picture

After months of speculation and rumors, the two decided to take a DNA test to put this matter to rest. The results shocked both parties: Cohen had zero percent chance of being Brink’s father.

Cohen issued a statement following the results of the test saying he was “stunned and dismayed when DNA tests disproved what Victoria and I believed about our relationship.”

Brink’s original tweet to Cohen read, “just saw you on tv!” to which he responded, “nice to know you were watchin SOTU(state of the union).Happy Valentines beautiful girl. ilu,” driving people to assume that the two romantically involved.

This, of course, was not the case. Believing that they were a long-lost father-daughter pair, Brink and Cohen kept that information from their families over three years. However, after the State of the Union tweeting episode — and the negative press coverage Cohen received — the two came clean about the true nature of their relationship.

Brink’s paternal father, John Brink, said that he was sure Victoria was his daughter all along.

Cohen had been involved with Brink’s mother in the past, and after searching her name on Google, he found that she had given birth to a daughter, Victoria, roughly nine months after they had been together. After contacting her, the two assumed that they were father and daughter.

After the dramatic dust had settled, Brink said she is confident that she won’t be caught in this kind of situation in the future, as she plans to “maybe do a DNA test first” before she assumes that a congressman is her biological father.

UPDATE: A female reporter for Real Clear Politics asked Cohen about the paternity test results earlier today, to which he responded “You’re very attractive, but I’m not talking about it” per the reporter’s Twitter account.

In response to previous tweet, Rep. Cohen came up to me to apologize if he offended. Said its a difficult&personal time for him right now.